Last I was here I was chugging through some examples in my Eatup on a few different JVM related languages. Went well. So after that I dropped the ECTech Meetup subscription, it was not fruitful and the tech scene had gotten taken over in my area by non-Java lovers doing things that don’t pertain to […]
And it’s way in the future and here we are again arguing about which IDE is better: IntelliJ or Eclipse. It never goes away. And NetBeans is still the choice of newbs, and gets cast aside for enterprise work. Personally I never look at it so it’s not in this discussion. We are talking PRACTICE. […]
If you are a daily developer like me, but not a release manager, getting called on to do release activities can be a frustrating thing. One of those things can be believing your tool’s view. Be careful – if you’ve updated your git tags – local SourceTree will show git tags at a spot that […]
Localstorage is a newer way to store data locally in a browser, kind of like a cookie. It is supposed to have a much easier interface than cookies and can do JSON. Another developer I know was using this and she was using localstorage to track local data for some dynamic web interactions. Nothing will […]
My brother is a teacher and he sent me a text and a pic of a broken 500gb external drive he uses for simple backups. He was asking the questions a lot of us are asking these days: how to store all of our data, short term/accessible and long term. When I think about the […]
I noticed my package scans were really slow in IntelliJ when starting/stopping my J2EE engines. Real slow. So I upped the memory and it helped a great deal. This was done for IntelliJ 15 Community Edition on OSX El Capitan (10.11.3). First, close IntelliJ of course. Right click the application and choose “Show Package Contents.” Open […]
Sometimes “they” move the location of your git repository. Seems to be happening a lot in my last few years of coding. There are a few ways to deal with this moving, but it is important to remember that git is very, very good at a move situation since every commit is unique and it’s […]
Tonight the meeting was held in the Madison/Waterloo WI area. We shared notes, contacts and techniques for finding remote work. General sentiments: Finding remote work is getting easier. You have to invest in some good gear for making communication easy. The work place in your house/coffee shop: experienced developers thought life/work separation was more important […]
If you ride motorcycles inevitably you’ve had to find parts. One place to buy parts via catalog is Dennis Kirk. If you get the paper catalog you have two choices: A very, very thick catalog for Harleys. In this catalog you can find almost any repair part for Harleys dating back at least 80 years. […]